About The Work
Suggestive of both African ceremonial costumes as well as Parisian high fashion, Nick Cave's Soundsuits—named because of the sounds they make when worn—are created from scavenged materials such as beads, old bottle caps, rusty iron sticks, and hair. They combine Cave's interests in fashion, culture, and the intersection of politics. By concealing their wearers' race, gender, and class, Cave's works allow individuals to escape or transcend prescribed identities.
About Nick Cave
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Color photograph made with archival pigments on fine art rag paper with matte finish
60.00 x 42.00 in
152.4 x 106.7 cm
This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. An artist signed label will be mailed separately.
About The Work
Suggestive of both African ceremonial costumes as well as Parisian high fashion, Nick Cave's Soundsuits—named because of the sounds they make when worn—are created from scavenged materials such as beads, old bottle caps, rusty iron sticks, and hair. They combine Cave's interests in fashion, culture, and the intersection of politics. By concealing their wearers' race, gender, and class, Cave's works allow individuals to escape or transcend prescribed identities.
About Nick Cave
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: Introducing Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
- Interviews & Features: 10 surprisingly affordable high-flex works
- News & Events: 6 Reasons to Collect Nick Cave's Soundsuit Photographs
- Interviews & Features: On View, Fall 2019: 7 Works by Blue-Chip Artists to Invest in This Month
- Art 101: 8 "Unbeweavable" Textile Artists Redefining the Traditional Medium
- The quoted dimensions are for the paper size. The image size for the 17 x 12 work is 15 x 11 inches, and the image size for the 40 x 30 work is 38 x 28 inches.
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